My name is Shen Ye. Twenty-four years old. Night shift security guard at Wing On Building.
On my first night on the job, I found a handwritten "Night Shift Code" in the drawer of the security room. There is a line of words blurred by water stains on the cover - "Shen Huaishan, Night 127."
That's my dad's handwriting. He has been missing for seven years.
I opened the rules and Article 1 read: Don't look back after 12 midnight.
I glanced at my phone - 23:59.
Then he raised his eyes to the monitoring screen in front of him. Everything works fine among the eight screens, but the screen is made of glass. In the reflection of the glass, there was a man standing behind me, wearing a dark gray security uniform with two words written on his chest badge.
Shen Huaishan.
He stood behind me for seven whole years.
The phone lights up.
00:00.
Then I heard a very soft laugh from behind me.
Like bubbles rising from the bottom of the water.
